The author is offering readers an opportunity to create a character of your own name that will make a first appearance killed in a future edition in the hit novel series.

A fundraising campaign, run through Prizeo, is being made in assistance of the ‘Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary’ and ‘The Food Depot’ in the New Mexican city of Santa Fe (USA), with the headlining prize flanked by a number of other offerings open for a limited time.

Any donators who pledge a total maximum of £20,000 ($33,000) are set to recieve the ‘honour’ of being introduced for an immediate horrific demise in a future installment of A Song of Ice and Fire, as Martin promises a ‘typically grisly death’ for both a male and a female reader’s character representation.

He writes on Prizeo of the offer that would presumably just fit a pre-written template: “There is one male character and one female character available. You can choose your character’s station in the world (lordling, knight, peasant, whore, lady, maester, septon, anything) and you will certainly meet a grisly death!”

Meanwhile, lower down the scale sees those paying £15,000 ($25,000) eligible for a breakfast with Martin, and half of that £7,500 ($12,500) offering wins you either a trademark hat worn by Martin or Game of Thrones season 5 premiere tickets, only one of each being available. Other prizes include a signed first-episode script for the Game of Thrones TV show, and more generic prizes such as an ‘e-thank you’ card, t-shirts, and a Game of Thrones cookbook.

As a bonus round, all donations made, regardless of amount, will be placed into an automatic draw for themselves and a friend to fly to Santa Fe to meet Martin and later accompany him on a tour of Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary. This charity process obviously being one task that George R.R. Martin does not want to be a lone wolf on…

While the author had recently provided hints at a long-lasting future for Game of Thrones (with the declaration that seven seasons of the show would not be ‘enough to tell his story’), the host network HBO are still on the search for any new scripted show that can match the prowess in ratings and following that ‘GoT‘ has managed. Their latest attempt, rapture-based drama The Leftovers, is trailered below:

Although not leaving for good, Angus T. Jones, who portrays ‘Jake Harper’ (a.k.a. the ‘half’ in Two and a Half Men) is not going to resume a full-time role as of the next season, instead becoming a recurring character.

The person that replaces ‘Jake’, however, will take the show in a completely different direction to its title (which will almost certainly remain, but has long since been irrelevant given Angus T. Jones’ on and off-screen age), with the currently-uncast role being that of ‘Jenny’, who will fill plenty of clichés by arriving suddenly as the ‘long-lost daughter’ of ‘Charlie Harper’ (the character played by Charlie Sheen).

Described as ‘a sexy and gorgeous lesbian’, ‘Jenny’ will arrive at the house in search of her father, but will then learn of his death, and that the home is now owned by internet billionaire ‘Walden Schmidt’ (Ashton Kutcher).

After some sort of plot in the season 10 premiere, she will decide to live with him along with her uncle ‘Alan Harper’ (played by Jon Cryer, the sole remaining ‘original cast member’ (pictured)). It is noted by producers that Jenny will arrive first as a recurring character, but will be promoted to a more regular role should audiences enjoy her.

The removal of Angus T. Jones from the show will not be a surprising one considering that he openly called the sitcom ‘filth’ last year with pleas to a Christian audience to ‘stop watching’, but going even further away from the CBS title’s original premise, will the new character be able to help maintain the show’s popularity, or are too many changes to the format sending it downhill fast?

There are already plenty of suggestions that ‘Jenny’ (who’s sexual orientation has already been joked as keeping up the ‘half-man’ part of the show’s title) will significantly boost CBS’s reputation in ‘equality surveys’ such as the ‘GLADD Network Responsibility Index’, but from a purely ratings point of view, perhaps producers found their inspiration through this:

Meanwhile, the incidents that summed up why Two and a Half Men is down to just one from the original cast list can be enjoyed again below: